On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 12:53:49AM +0300, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > I see your point, but I respectfully disagree. I can give myself as an > example: After signing my last contract to work at a start-up, the > "boss" decided (3 weeks after I started to work) that I need to select > an option: either a 60% cut of my salary or quitting. He's sure that > he can get professional Linux staff for around 6-7K "bruto". (I'm not > talking about some person who just finished RHCE, he is looking for > someone who knows load balancing, scripts, deep server knowledge > etc..). Why he didn't check prior signing a contract with me getting > people with this amount of salary is beyond me. I know that I had to > quit due to his childish decisions and be left high and dry. It's not > that he wasn't satisfied with my work, it's that he wasn't satisfied > with the contract that he himself wrote and signed. Thats why I wrote > what I wrote.
I expect that it was something quite different. Much more likely is that they either had money troubles, or they had staffing problems and wanted to hire someone who wanted the extra money. They figured you would take the cut, and if you did not, they would live with whomever they could get at the salary. Each month they did not fill the job, they would "make do" and save the money. Quite possibly, they budgeted salaries and expenses at 4.25 NIS to the dollar, got their funding in dollars and found that it was now 30% short. I'm sorry that you had to go through the emotional roller coaster but in the end you are well rid of them. 95% of all startups fail, 75%-85% of them in the first year, and this is just one of the reasons. The statistics the government publishes are skewed because they only count startups that make it to the point of incorportation or registering with the tax authorities. Lots of startups are funded privately and never get that far. I'm not sure how you could do it and not expose yourself to trouble, but you should let everyone know who the guy was and the name of his company, so that no one else falls for the same trap. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel [EMAIL PROTECTED] N3OWJ/4X1GM ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
